While much has been said about Nintendo's strong showing of Wii U games at E3, it's also worth noting their impressive collection of strong female player-characters in a time when the industry needs them most.
Game developer Hideki Kamiya talks about Bayonetta in the Smash Bros. games.
All of the Super Smash Bros. games are incredible, but which one stands as the mightiest of them all and has the best modes?
To me smash brows Melee is my all time favorite. I can't tell you how many hours I played that game between friends and family. When I was a kid, my parents couldn't afford a gaming console so I had to go somewhere that had an arcade like setup with the only difference being instead of arcade cabinets, they had big screen crt TV's and gaming consoles setup. I would go with my friends on special occasions after school or with my family on the weekends.
I would meet and make new friends at that place as we were all gamers and we also brought our game boys and would trade pokemon. I don't think those places exist these days but back then, it was easy to meet like-minded people and have fun for hours.
Well, I’ll add my extremely subjective ranking too. I won’t include the 3DS version as I don’t owned it. I did play it for a few minutes though.
5. Brawl.
4. N64 Smash
3. Ultimate
2. Wiiu Smash
1. Melee
VGChartz's Mark Nielsen: "While the future of Smash Bros. has been uncertain for a while - whether Nintendo will build on Ultimate or bring us a new entry entirely - within all likelihood a new Nintendo system still means something new for Smash Bros. is on the horizon, and that something will almost certainly include new fighters, however many or few. While this might be the gaming article equivalent of putting up Christmas decorations in October, it’s never too early to start speculations when it comes to Smash Bros. before two thirds of everything inevitably gets leaked ahead of time. Keep in mind that this is not a list of predictions for future newcomers, though a few could perhaps fit in that same category, but rather a small list of the characters that in this writer’s humble opinion are overdue an appearance in the gaming crossover to end all crossovers."
'While much has been said about Nintendo's strong showing of Wii U games at E3, it's also worth noting their impressive collection of strong female player-characters in a time when the industry needs them most.'
LMAO! They act like seeing "Strong Female" protagonists/characters is something new and or hasn't been done before. You would have to deliberately not look for them not to find them.
Are articles like this done lying on gaming? 7_7
'Almost every game I saw had one of two player characters shown. It was either a gravelly-voice white male with two-day stubble and a crew cut, or it was a cocky white guy with a smirk and an attitude.'
*sigh*
Can idiots like this seriously STFU with this "oh look, a white guy game" BS?
Making a character non-white adds absolutely nothing to the gameplay, or the game's quality.
I'm black and even I'm getting sick of this "white guy game" BS
All people do by "fixing" this is limit the creative vision of the developer.
What about link or did they confirm that it's a male?
Is Yoshi asexual?
People have been reading way too hard into everything Nintendo does lately.
¬_¬ Y'know what bothers me? I thought, I legitimately thought, that this article would be a decent look at some of the cool female characters coming to Nintendo games. But no. It's more social justice bs. It's more 'oh look at the white male dominated gaming sphere' bs.
Why. All these assumptions and assertions and all these constant controversies. Over something so simple. What is the end game? Will people not rest until there's always female characters in everything, and they're also strong, always playable, always one of the main characters, always non-sexualized with small boobs, and always the center of attention? Should we just take this character type and make it the main character of every game and call it a day?
Need I point out how simply having this does NOT make a game good or bad, and that the idea that diversity is important to games is a very ignorant one. Whether or not a game has diversity has ZERO to do with how good it is. What IRKS ME THE MOST is that the people who complain about this stuff seem to not care about games qua games. All they want is 'representation'. They don't care about story, context, design or even legacy. They want games to mold to their way of thinking and appeal to them on a personal level, creative freedom be damned.
Why is this happening to our video games? For years, we've had exciting IPs, interesting characters both male and female, and amazing worlds that lasted in our memories forever. Both male and female gamers have thrived in this culture, creating lets plays and walkthroughs, cosplaying as their favorite characters and expressing themselves.But today, I can't even open up N4G without seeing someone YET AGAIN moan about how a video game can't 'represent' women with enough female characters (because obviously, you need to have women there for women to like something...¬_¬).
Female characters should be present BY design, they should be there FOR ALL. This is NOT about representation and it should stop being political. Social justice has gaming in a choke hold and all it does is demand. I feel like these people don't understand why gaming is here and soon we can't even have white male protagonists at all without criticism. Once again I stress that I was hoping this would be a cool article about female characters, but this is what I get instead. What a joke.